Sept | Oct 2022
20 Years of Tailgating
By Janelle Sosa
Friends Stavinoha, Burch, Holloway, and Smith purchased their burnt-orange Volkswagen in 2006; The tailgate across the pond in 2001. “Come early, be loud,...
A Wilder World
By Abby Carney
Author Millie Kerr has had a love for nature and wildlife since she was a child spending time on her grandparents’ ranch, a home to scimitar-horned oryx,...
Way Out West
By Pat Cook
Night begins to fall in Big Bend. We all know Texas is big. We often rumble around in the part we live in (if we’re lucky), and we kind of know that it’s...
This Longhorn Has Been Running for a Cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for Nearly 20 Years
By Alan Cundy
The Revells at the finish line of the 2019 Austin Marathon. Faced with his son’s incurable disease, Tim Revell, BS, BS ’99, got busy. Although not a runner,...
The Way Back: Aggie Armadillos
By Abigail Rosenthal
An armadillo is removed from the field by a University of Texas Longhorn Band Member during halftime of the 1971 Texas vs. Texas A&M game. Few rivalries...
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The Famed Scottish Rite Dormitory Is Celebrating 100 Years This Fall
By Katie Friel
For the past century, the Scottish Rite Dormitory, a stately, Georgian-inspired residential building, has sat on a picturesque plot of West 27th Street. Three...
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Kenny Vaccaro Is Taking on the World of Esports
By Jason Cohen
Anyone who’s ever seen Kenny Vaccaro, ’12, has a Kenny Vaccaro highlight burned into their head. Perhaps it was one of his many crushing tackles covering...
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Exploring Outside the Lines
By Abigail Rosenthal
We all had one during our time in college: an elective course signed up for on a whim, perhaps begrudgingly, to fulfill that elusive flag requirement, in search...
Discover New Fall Reads From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
BORN TO SHINE Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love by Kendra Scott A familiar name in Austin and in jewelry stores around...
Letter From the Executive Director: Bang the Drum
By Chuck Harris
Harris backstage at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009. As a hardcore business major in the 1980s, I was focused on getting to class at the McCombs...
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor